§1.13.1δυνατωτέρας δὲ γιγνομένης τῆς Ἑλλάδος καὶ τῶν χρημάτων τὴν κτῆσιν ἔτι μᾶλλον ἢ πρότερον ποιουμένης τὰ πολλὰ τυραννίδες ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι καθίσταντο, τῶν προσόδων μειζόνων γιγνομένων (πρότερον δὲ ἦσαν ἐπὶ ῥητοῖς γέρασι πατρικαὶ βασιλεῖαι), ναυτικά τε ἐξηρτύετο ἡ Ἑλλάς, καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης μᾶλλον ἀντείχοντο.
As Greece became more powerful and acquired wealth even more than before, tyrannies were established in most of the cities as their revenues increased (previously there had been hereditary kingships with specified privileges); and Greece began to equip navies and applied themselves more to the sea.
§1.13.2πρῶτοι δὲ Κορίνθιοι λέγονται ἐγγύτατα τοῦ νῦν τρόπου μεταχειρίσαι τὰ περὶ τὰς ναῦς, καὶ τριήρεις ἐν Κορίνθῳ πρῶτον τῆς Ἑλλάδος ναυπηγηθῆναι.
The Corinthians are said to have been the first to manage naval affairs in a manner closest to the present fashion, and it is said that triremes were first built in Greece at Corinth.
§1.13.3φαίνεται δὲ καὶ Σαμίοις Ἀμεινοκλῆς Κορίνθιος ναυπηγὸς ναῦς ποιήσας τέσσαρας· ἔτη δ᾽ ἐστὶ μάλιστα τριακόσια ἐς τὴν τελευτὴν τοῦδε τοῦ πολέμου ὅτε Ἀμεινοκλῆς Σαμίοις ἦλθεν.
It is also clear that Ameinocles, a Corinthian shipbuilder, built four ships for the Samians; and it is about three hundred years to the end of this war since Ameinocles came to the Samians.
§1.13.4ναυμαχία τε παλαιτάτη ὧν ἴσμεν γίγνεται Κορινθίων πρὸς Κερκυραίους· ἔτη δὲ μάλιστα καὶ ταύτῃ ἑξήκοντα καὶ διακόσιά ἐστι μέχρι τοῦ αὐτοῦ χρόνου.
And the oldest sea-fight of which we know was that of the Corinthians against the Corcyraeans; and for this too, it is about two hundred and sixty years to the same time.
§1.13.5οἰκοῦντες γὰρ τὴν πόλιν οἱ Κορίνθιοι ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἰσθμοῦ αἰεὶ δή ποτε ἐμπόριον εἶχον, τῶν Ἑλλήνων τὸ πάλαι κατὰ γῆν τὰ πλείω ἢ κατὰ θάλασσαν, τῶν τε ἐντὸς Πελοποννήσου καὶ τῶν ἔξω, διὰ τῆς ἐκείνων παρ’ ἀλλήλους ἐπιμισγόντων, χρήμασί τε δυνατοὶ ἦσαν, ὡς καὶ τοῖς παλαιοῖς ποιηταῖς δεδήλωται· ἀφνειὸν γὰρ ἐπωνόμασαν τὸ χωρίον. ἐπειδή τε οἱ Ἕλληνες μᾶλλον ἔπλῳζον, τὰς ναῦς κτησάμενοι τὸ λῃστικὸν καθῄρουν, καὶ ἐμπόριον παρέχοντες ἀμφότερα δυνατὴν ἔσχον χρημάτων προσόδῳ τὴν πόλιν.
For the Corinthians, inhabiting their city upon the Isthmus, had always possessed an emporium, because in ancient times the Greeks, both those within the Peloponnese and those without, communicated with each other through their territory, traveling more by land than by sea; and they were powerful in wealth, as has also been shown by the ancient poets, for they named the place "wealthy." And when the Greeks took more to the sea, the Corinthians, having acquired ships, put down piracy, and by offering a market to both land and sea, they made their city powerful in revenue of money.
§1.13.6καὶ Ἴωσιν ὕστερον πολὺ γίγνεται ναυτικὸν ἐπὶ Κύρου Περσῶν πρώτου βασιλεύοντος καὶ Καμβύσου τοῦ υἱέος αὐτοῦ, τῆς τε καθ’ ἑαυτοὺς θαλάσσης Κύρῳ πολεμοῦντες ἐκράτησάν τινα χρόνον.
And much later, a navy was also formed by the Ionians in the time of Cyrus, the first king of the Persians, and of Cambyses his son; and while warring against Cyrus they held mastery over their own sea for some time.
καὶ Πολυκράτης Σάμου τυραννῶν ἐπὶ Καμβύσου ναυτικῷ ἰσχύων ἄλλας τε τῶν νήσων ὑπηκόους ἐποιήσατο καὶ Ῥήνειαν ἑλὼν ἀνέθηκε τῷ Ἀπόλλωνι τῷ Δηλίῳ.
Also Polycrates, being tyrant of Samos in the time of Cambyses, being strong with his navy, made some of the islands subject to him, and having taken Rheneia, dedicated it to the Delian Apollo.
Φωκαῆς τε Μασσαλίαν οἰκίζοντες Καρχηδονίους ἐνίκων ναυμαχοῦντες·
And the Phocaeans, while founding Massalia, defeated the Carthaginians in a sea-fight.